Word: suits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Maxim, now in his 71st year, who invented Maximite, Stabillite, Motorite, the U. S. variety of smokeless powder and many other explosive marvels, turned his inventive genius upon the 18th Amendment, and arrived at the conclusion that Prohibition Commissioner Roy Asa Haynes should bring suit against hotels and restaurants that sell coffee and tea. Said he: "I have consulted some of the most eminent legal authorities in the country and I speak with their authority when I tell you that if all manner of alcoholic liquors were served at this dinner the provisions of the 18th Amendment would...
...Gertrude Atherton has returned to Manhattan from San Francisco and is again becoming immersed in the lit-erary-social life of the metropolis. She is a very handsome woman, more striking than ever in a dark suit, a small dark hat, her pale yellow hair done close to her head, talking in staccato and determined tones-a remarkable woman in more ways than...
...three mile limit. A libel case, a good one, is a rarity among the larger papers of the country. But by a decision of a Justice of the New York Supreme Court last week, Mr. William Randolph Hearst and the Star Company will have to defend a libel suit...
...suit was brought by no less, a person than the leader of Tammany Hall, Charles F. Murphy, Democratic Boss of New York City, who alleges that he is an honorable and upright man and that an editorial, published by the New York Evening Journal, in 1919, damaged his reputation in the amount stated...
...laugh proves to be a little at Mr. Hearst's expense, if one troubles to consult the back files of the Journal. Two days after Mr. Murphy filed suit in 1919, the Journal published a second editorial...